gfx v0.9.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-06-18 // almost 3 years ago
    • This is the final crates-published release of gfx-hal. gfx-hal development was mainly driven by wgpu which has now switched to its own GPU abstraction: wgpu-hal. As such, gfx-hal will be in maintence mode until the story of gfx-portability is figured out. Read more about the transition in #3768.
    • MTL: Prevent accessing NSView on other threads.
    • Fix panics when android apps reopen.
    • Support dynamic array sizes on metal.
    • Added backend agnostic RenderDoc captures.
    • Allow initialization of gfx objects from raw handles.
    • Add missing features to the dx12 backend that are needed by wgpu.
    • Made PhysicalDevice::enabled_extensions public.
    • Added the ability to import formeign memory
    • GLES: Deferred deleting shaders until after linking
    • GLES: Fix texture views
    • GLES: Fix nearest neighbor filtering.
    • Assorted: Documentation fixes

Previous changes from v0.8.2

    • fix linking to QuartzCore